Boston, Mass., September 22, 2022 — Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering next generation precision immunomodulators and oncology medicines, today announced that it is has been named by Endpoints News as one of the Endpoints 11 companies of 2022. This honor is awarded to the most promising private biotechnology companies in the industry breaking new ground in drug development.
Odyssey’s highly integrated drug hunting engine fuses both established and newly-emerging drug discovery technologies to tackle immunology and oncology targets with the highest clinical and commercial potential, including those previously considered “undruggable.” The company’s platform approach aims to transform drug discovery to accelerate and drive the creation and efficient delivery of life-enhancing precision medicines to patients.
“We are honored to be recognized as an Endpoints 11 company for our suite of cutting-edge technology platforms and portfolio of innovative product candidates to deliver differentiated patient benefits with an eye to transforming standards of care,” said Gary D. Glick, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Odyssey Therapeutics. “This recognition serves as a testament to the tireless work and dedication of our team in delivering on our mission to provide life-changing solutions for patients, and continues to fuel our urgency to go beyond the current limitations of treatment and make the future of precision medicine a reality.”
About Odyssey Therapeutics
Odyssey Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing, and commercializing immunomodulators and oncology medicines that aim to transform drug discovery to accelerate and drive the creation and efficient delivery of life-enhancing precision medicines to patients. Built from the ground-up by an expert team of drug hunters, scientists and industry leaders, Odyssey is focused on being first to market with programs that act on targets with the highest clinical and commercial potential. For more information, please visit www.odysseytx.com and follow Odyssey Therapeutics on Twitter (@Odyssey_Tx) and LinkedIn.
Odyssey Therapeutics, launched early in 2021 by serial biotech entrepreneur Gary Glick, has brought in a big Series A round and is differentiating itself with what Glick calls “intellectual capital.” The company is working on a broad array of ailments, developing protein therapeutics and small molecules to modulate the immune system, with the goal of tackling inflammatory disorders, autoimmune diseases and oncology. It’s got a star-studded team of senior leaders and scientists, many of them pulled from big pharma.
Odyssey Therapeutics Inc. launched with a whopping $218 million series A round, the year’s second-largest, to fuel work by almost 100 employees recruited in the past few months, mostly from big pharma firms.
At the start of 2021, serial biotech entrepreneur Gary Glick revealed a mega-round of financing for his new precision oncology startup. Now he’s back at it again, bringing along some familiar investors who have joined forces to raise even more money—$218 million—for yet another startup he founded, Odyssey Therapeutics. That biotech is setting out with programs already in development in cancer and immunology.
Nine months young and five months since hiring its first employee, Odyssey Therapeutics has secured $218 million to bankroll seven programs across cancer and inflammation. Its first study in humans will be in late 2023 or early 2024.
Odyssey Therapeutics isn’t Gary Glick’s first biotech start-up. Or his second. It’s his fifth. The serial entrepreneur has earned a reputation for launching one company after another to develop small-molecule drugs for cancer and immune diseases. Many of those firms, working on popular targets including STING and the NLRP3 inflammasome, were quickly snatched up by larger firms. But Odyssey could be his biggest venture yet.